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  • A World History of Mobility

    An Essay on Road Cultures and Beyond

    by Gijs Mom ...
    Series Book 8 - Explorations in Mobility
    As a tool of globalized mobility, the car provides a useful barometer for charting the global development of socio-cultural, economic, technical, and political modernization. Shaped by prevailing gender and racial norms and popularized by a Western-driven car culture, it is a commodity whose access and use embodies wider inequalities. In this comprehensive world history of (auto)mobility, Gijs Mom ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Pacific Automobilism

    Adventure, Status and the Carnival of Mobility, 1970–2015

    by Gijs Mom ...
    The beginning of the 21st century has seen important shifts in mobility cultures around the world, as the West’s media-driven car culture has contrasted with existing local mobilities, from rickshaws in India and minibuses in Africa to cycling in China. In this expansive volume, historian Gijs Mom explores how contemporary mobility has been impacted by social, political, and economic forces on a ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Globalizing Automobilism

    Exuberance and the Emergence of Layered Mobility, 1900–1980

    by Gijs Mom ...
    Why has “car society” proven so durable, even in the face of mounting environmental and economic crises? In this follow-up to his magisterial Atlantic Automobilism, Gijs Mom traces the global spread of the automobile in the postwar era and investigates why adopting more sustainable forms of mobility has proven so difficult. Drawing on archival research as well as wide-ranging forays into popular ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Electric Vehicle

    Technology and Expectations in the Automobile Age

    by Gijs Mom ...
    Winner of the Engineer-Historian Award from the International History and Heritage Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award given by the Society of Automotive HistoriansRecent attention to hybrid cars that run on both gasoline and electric batteries has made the electric car an apparent alternative to the internal combustion engine and its ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Sound and Safe

    A History of Listening Behind the Wheel

    by Karin Bijsterveld, Eefje Cleophas, Stefan Krebs, Gijs Mom ...
    Do you enjoy listening to music while driving? Do you find radio traffic information indispensable? Do you like to sing along with whatever you like as you drive? This book tells the fascinating story of how, over the course of the twentieth century, we turned automobiles from intentionally noisy contraptions into spheres of auditory privacy that make us feel sound and safe. It explains how ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Mobility in History

    The State of the Art in the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility. Yearbook 2010

    by Laurent Tissot, Gordon Pirie, Gijs Mom ...
    Series series Histoire des transports du tourisme et du voyage
    For decades scholars in diverse fields have examined problems in the history of mobility. Their diversity was their strength but also their limitation, as disciplinary boundaries impeded the exchange of ideas that lets scholarship flourish. Since 2003 the International Association for the History of Traffic, Transport and Mobility (T2M) has served as a free-trade zone, fostering a new ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Future City

    Edited by Stephen Read, Jürgen Rosemann, Job van Eldijk ...
    This text focuses on cities as the dominant form of human settlement for the future, examining the transformation that is happening in urban connobations worldwide today. The last few decades have seen a rate of change and growth in cities that has never been seen before, resulting in giant metropoles with over twenty million inhabitants. This book tackles the causes of these changes, and looks at ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • The Idea of a Human Rights Museum

    by Angela Failler, Adam Muller, Clint Curle, Christopher Powell, Amanda Grzyb, Jodi Giesbrecht, Struan Sinclair, Helen Fallding, Stephen Jaeger, Mary Reid0, Ken Norman1, A. Dirk Moses2, Roger I. Simon3, Ruth B. Phillips4, David Petrasek5, Karen Busby7, Andrew Woolford8, Armando Perla0, Jennifer Carter1, Jorge A. Nállim2, George Jacob3 ...
    Series Book 1 - Human Rights and Social Justice Series
    The Idea of a Human Rights Museum is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum within the context of the international proliferation of such institutions. Sixteen essays consider the wider political, cultural and architectural contexts within which the museum physically and conceptually evolved drawing comparisons between the CMHR and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Conviviality at the Crossroads

    The Poetics and Politics of Everyday Encounters

    Edited by Oscar Hemer, Maja Povrzanović Frykman, Per-Markku Ristilammi ...
    Conviviality has lately become a catchword not only in academia but also among political activists. This open access book discusses conviviality in relation to the adjoining concepts cosmopolitanism and creolisation. The urgency of today’s global predicament is not only an argument for the revival of all three concepts, but also a reason to bring them into dialogue. Ivan Illich envisioned a post ... Read more

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  • Practicing Utopia

    An Intellectual History of the New Town Movement

    by Rosemary Wakeman ...
    The typical town springs up around a natural resource—a river, an ocean, an exceptionally deep harbor—or in proximity to a larger, already thriving town. Not so with “new towns,” which are created by decree rather than out of necessity and are often intended to break from the tendencies of past development. New towns aren’t a new thing—ancient Phoenicians named their colonies Qart Hadasht, or New ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Global Mobilities

    Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives

    Edited by Amy K. Levin ...
    Global Mobilities illustrates the significant engagement of museums and archives with populations that have experienced forced or willing migration: emigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, and others. The volume explores the role of public institutions in the politics of integration and cultural diversity, analyzing their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Curatorial Dreams

    Critics Imagine Exhibitions

    by Erica Lehrer, Shelley Butler ...
    What if museum critics were challenged to envision their own exhibitions? In Curatorial Dreams, fourteen authors from disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities propose exhibitions inspired by their research and critical concerns to creatively put theory into practice.Pushing the boundaries of museology, this collection gives rare insight into the process of conceptualizing ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD